Metaphor for the teacher/student relationship – GRAD 602
January 26, 2010
Endless metaphors and analogies could contrived to describe the ideal teacher/student relationship. Inspired by the man who still managed the make the news this morning, 490 years after his death, I’ll attempt to make a more unexpected metaphor. The teacher is an object and the student is CN II (cranial nerve II or the optic nerve). The teacher provides information and motivates curiosity. The student must take this information to their mind and make sense of it for proper understanding and knowledge.
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” – Leonardo da Vinci
FierDeL'treEmpirical's Blog 
January 28, 2010 at 7:13 pm
I think you metaphor truly captures the teacher/student relationship. The idea that the teacher’s information should motivate the student’s curiosity is- well in my opinion idealistic. I think we will have a world of intellectuals if students are indeed prompt explore a line a inquiry base in the teachers’ information.